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A Star to Steer Her By - A Star Trek Podcast
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Now in our 10th year, the intrepid crew of Chris, Jake, Caitlin, & Ames watch through the entire universe of Trek, go on wild tangents, crack wise, and make more fart jokes than necessary.
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After dragging its feet a lot this season #startrek "Discovery" has quite a lot happening at once in "Species Ten-C"
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Episode 425: The Gassy Hello
Well shoot, a lot is happening all at once this week in
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Level up with us this week on the blog! We're wrapping up our science fiction series with our favorite video games from the genre! Game over, man! 🎮🎮🎮
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Top Five Sci-Fi Video Games
By Ames At long last, we have reached the end of our science fiction–themed blog series (mostly because I’ve run out of topics for the moment). And we’re wrapping things up with a bang (or a bunch of....
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January 22, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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After dragging its feet a lot this season #startrek "Discovery" has quite a lot happening at once in "Species Ten-C"
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Episode 425: The Gassy Hello
Well shoot, a lot is happening all at once this week in
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January 22, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Burnham is constantly justifying why both she and Saru have to go on away missions because of her xenoanthropology and his linguistics, when they HAVE a linguistics expert on the DMA panel. Or Zora. Or a DOT. Or a tricorder. Stay home! #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“You’ve described Saru the same way you would describe a tricorder. Maybe you don’t need him.” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 424: Huffing the Love Dust
January 20, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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If the EV suits only filter out materials that they're programmed to filter out and NOT unknown, alien substances, they are absolutely borked. Filter everything! #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“It’s like [EV Suit] technology has surpassed any logical usefulness. At that point it’s like, well, maybe you’d be better off wearing one of those COVID masks and hoping for the best actually.” -Caitlin, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 424: Huffing the Love Dust
January 19, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Even if Species Ten-C communicates via piles of dust that make you feel good, that doesn't mean you don't need a control group when testing them out! Say no to dust. #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“‘Everyone, huff dust!’ And they all huff dust, and I’m like, ‘NO! One of you needs to be sane!’” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 424: Huffing the Love Dust
January 18, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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We're this close to the end of season 4 of #StarTrekDiscovery, in which Book continues to be the most (only?) compelling character on the show. #StarTrek
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“I’m sure David Ajala still has back pain from carrying this season.” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 424: Huffing the Love Dust
January 16, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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📖🛸 Take a look. It's in a book. Another planet. This week, we're comparing reading lists of our favorite sci-fi literature to snuggle up with and prepare for the odd alien invasion. 📖🛸
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Top Five Sci-Fi Novels
By Ames This week we’re taking a hint from LeVar Burton and taking a look in a book (perhaps for a Reading Rainbow), and we’re loving what we peruse. While all the A Star to Steer Her By hosts admit.....
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January 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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We need to figure out a way to understand Species 10-C in this week's #startrek Discovery episode "Rosetta", and what better way than taking big lungfulls of their planet?
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Episode 424: Huffing the Love Dust
We've made it past the galactic barrier and no one's gotten tinfoil eyes so it looks like the mission is a go in
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January 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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If #StarTrekDiscovery really wanted a famous director to make a guest appearance because everyone loved Werner Herzog in #TheMandalorian, David Cronenberg is a weird choice. He seems so disinterested in being here. #StarTrek
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“Cronenberg just bails in the scene too. He’s like, ‘I’ve got to attend to an important matter,’ and then you just hear a flush offscreen.” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 423: Michael's Chips and Rillak's Dips
January 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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I feel it necessary to contextualize that this is in regard to #StarTrekDiscovery, not #StarTrekLowerDecks.
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“There was so much telling and not showing in this episode that they even had to tell us right at the very beginning that there was a joke that we should think was funny.” -Caitlin, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 423: Michael's Chips and Rillak's Dips
January 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Season 4 of #StarTrekDiscovery is plodding along so slowly that it takes a full episode to do what "Where No Man Has Gone Before" accomplished in a hot minute. #StarTrek
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“There wasn’t really the conflict of how do we get through the galactic barrier because I think the way we got through the galactic barrier was just going through the galactic barrier.” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 423: Michael's Chips and Rillak's Dips
January 11, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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Chris is finally beginning to see why the other hosts just aren't that into #StarTrekDiscovery. #StarTrek
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“If this is what the show has been for the rest of you for all this time, MY GOD, how have you not all quit?” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 423: Michael's Chips and Rillak's Dips
January 10, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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🍿🍿 Grab a bag of popcorn! We're blasting off to the movies this week with our favorite science fiction films! Lights! Camera! Liftoff! 🍿🍿
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Top Five Sci-fi Movies · By Ames We’re continuing our culmination of our exploration of the science fiction genre with what might be the hardest exercise yet (even harder than las…
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January 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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🖖🎁 Happy belated holidays from the A Star to Steer Her By crew! Look how much we love each other per our annual gift exchange! 🖖🎁
Signed photos of Garak, Saru, and Trip Tucker. A Hallmark ornament of a Dune ornithopter. A stunning Borg mug. The boardgame Only Murders in the Building. A Ferengi action figure. And the card game Lower Decks: Buffer Time.
January 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Ohhhhhhh man this was a rough one. Almost nothing happens in "The Galactic Barrier" on #startrek Discovery this week, but there's some lingering Christmas, at least
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Episode 423: Michael's Chips and Rillak's Dips
We have some extra time opening Christmas gifts this week but our episode is normal length because basically nothing happens in
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January 8, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Real talk from Caitlin: Should we just let Tarka and Book kerplode the DMA in #StarTrekDiscovery? We say probably. #StarTrek
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“This would ostensibly be like if someone’s lawn mower was going crazy and running over all the neighbors’ children, and you stopped it and were like, ‘Hey man, I owe you a new mower, but you were destroying children.’” -Caitlin, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 422: Failures All Around
January 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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We're more even shocked that Burnham remembered Nhan's name than we are that she showed up randomly in #StarTrekDiscovery. #StarTrek
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“I knew we saw Nhan once more this season, but I forgot why and how. So when Vance was like, ‘There’s gonna be a chaperone,’ I was like, ‘Is... is it Tilly?’” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By. Episode 422: Failures All Around
January 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Somehow Book is the Brains, the Muscle, AND the Looks of the operation, and Tarka is mostly the Wildcard. #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“All episode long, the thing I was mentally SCREAMING at the television: ‘Tarka is still an element here.’ In my brain, this episode is called ‘Wild Card, Bitches!’” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 422: Failures All Around
January 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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What else do Nhan from #StarTrekDiscovery and naan the bread have in common? They're both flat. #StarTrek
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“Hey guys, what do Nhan the character and naan the bread have in common? YUM YUM!” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 422: Failures All Around
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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Blast off and chill with us as the SSHB hosts share our Top Five Sci-Fi TV Series! Don't touch that dial (it's probably set to auto destruct).
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Top Five Sci-fi Television Series
By Ames If you’ve been following along with our science fiction listicle series, then you’ve made it to the best of the best. We’ve covered niche topics that range from best sci-fi dystopias, to best....
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January 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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In "Rubicon" it's time to welcome back everyone's favorite crewmate! If by favorite you mean the woman who had the misfortune to utter one of the dumbest lines in the entire franchise's history... #startrek #startrekdiscovery #yumyum
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Episode 422: Failures All Around
Everyone's favorite crewmate is back in
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January 1, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Haz Mazaro and his casino, the Karma Barge, in "All In" are a damn delight. The constant spouting of alien idiom, the actor clearly having fun, the entrance through a hologram sea dragon—all fine touches! #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“I will say, of the several times over the years Star Trek has tried to do the Star Wars cantina, this is maybe one of their more successful attempts.” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 421: Everybody Loves Haz
December 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Caitlin's not a fan of Ruon Tarka this season, but the question is: Does she not like him because you're intended to not like him or because of bad writing? #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“I hate when people tell me I’m supposed to hate a character. I know I’m supposed to hate him!” -Caitlin, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 421: Everybody Loves Haz
December 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Nice to see that there are still Changelings in the 32nd century who are absolutely incompetent. Why turn into a tribble when you can just goo through a crack somewhere? #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“So Owo gets a buff this week; another of our old friends gets a big nerf, and that’s the Changelings, cuz they got bitched.” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 421: Everybody Loves Haz
December 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Is Ames the only one who likes the Battlestar Galactica episode "Unfinished Business"? There's got to be more boxing episode fans out there.
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“Get [Book] in the ring! We’ve already got a boxing episode, let’s go full Battlestar Galactica with this thing!” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 421: Everybody Loves Haz
December 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM